Yes Upper Austria banned wearing headscarves

If FPÖ Vice Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache takes the lead, there will be a ban on headscarves in the children's gardens between the Federation and the children. Länder during the summer.

for a settlement in elementary schools there will be in the coming weeks. You want to protect children from symbols and clothing that have a negative impact on their development in childhood, says a written document from Strache's office. The ban on headscarves in children's gardens will enable girls to lead an independent and equal life in Austrian society.

It is also the direction of the Upper Austrian State Secretary, Christine Haberlander (ÖVP). Freedom of religion is a high commodity and "with all the forces" to protect, so Haberlander, but: "The headscarf, however, is a symbol that the equal rights of women and men in question", so a symbol can "in our country no place have." The Provincial Councilor expresses her full support for the Strache initiative: "All measures that eliminate discrimination from an early age and that integrate more strongly girls in social life and in educational institutions are welcome. "Upper Austria is synonymous with a" such federal-state agreement is fundamentally positive, "said the woman's adviser and education.

Incidentally, Vice Chancellor Strache also points out that in Turkey, the headscarf was generally banned in public schools for a long time, and until the fifth year this still applies. " scarf is clearly an expression of political Islam, whose influence we want in Austria and that we must repel. We can not allow girls to be stigmatized and even badualized in kindergarten, "he argued against the oppression of women

The Islamic religious community announced that it would use" all legal remedies "to prohibit the headscarf